Yes, really. In March 1781, in Bath, England, the astronomer William Herschel became the first person to recognize what we now call Uranus as a planet. It was a history-making discovery in ...

This film explores the evolution of our understanding of the solar system, highlighting the significant discovery of Uranus by William Herschel in 1781. It discusses how the Voyager 2 spacecraft ...

Orbiting the Sun at an average distance of 2.9 billion kilometres - more than 19 times further out than the Earth - Uranus was the first planet to be discovered with the aid of a telescope, in 1781.

However, it has no moons. Discovered in 1781, Uranus is the seventh planet in the solar system. Uranus spins in the opposite direction to Earth and most other planets; the spin is called ...